Safety-pocket.



No. 807,741. PATBNTED DEG. 19, 1905. R'. D. HAY & J. P. BIEBER.

SAFETY POCKET. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 20, 1905.

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ROBERT D. HAY AND'JOHN E.

BIEBEB, OF WASHINGTON, DISTBIOT OE COLUMBIA.

sAFEiY-POCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19, 1905.

Application filed June 20, 1905. Serial No. 266,178.

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Be it known that we, ROBERT D. HAY and JOHN F. BIEBER, citizens of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Pockets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists of a safety-pocket for garments, particularly designed to be used in connection with hip-pockets of mens trousers, but adapted for use upon garments of various kinds where it would be desirable to have a pocket which will safely retain any articles which are placed therein.

The invention may be said to reside more especially in a pocket structure affording a peculiar closure therefor, accomplishing the desired result, as will be pointed out more clearly hereinafter.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l -is a perspective view, partially broken away, showing a pocket embodying the invention, as when applied to the hippocket of mens trousers or in similar capacity. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the safety-pocket alone. Fig. 4 is a vertical section showing the pocket open. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view showing the parts of the frame at the upper portion of the pocket. Fig. 6 is a broken horizontal sectional view showing more clearly the manner of attaching the elastic strip to the frame at the mouth of the pocket.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

Describing specically the construction shown in the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the garment to which the pocket is applied, and when the invention is used in connection with hip-pockets of trousers it is designed that the pocket which comprises the same shall be bodily inserted in the hip-pocket constitutes this invention is indicated at 4 and 2 ofthe wearing-apparel and retained therein by means of stitching the upper portion of said pocket, as shown at 3, to the garment l, near the mouth of the pocket 2. The pocket which is preferably made from suitable fabric material, such as canvas or the like. The pocket 4 has inner and outer sides, and at the upper portion of said pocket or near the mouth thereof is arranged a transverse strip 5, adapted to form a closure for the pocket 4, said strip 5 being made of flexible or elastic material, such as ordinary elastic.

The inner side of the pocket 4, just above the mouth 6 thereof, is provided with a stiffening-frame composed of the transverse stiffener members 7, connected at opposite ends by vertical plates 8. The members 7 may be made of whalebone or of light metal strips adapted to iieX, so as to con-form with the body on movement of the wearer of the garment to which the pocket 4 is applied. The parts 7 and 8 together constitute the frame at the upper portion of the pocket 4, just above the mouth 6 thereof, and this frame is nclosed by plies of material composed in the structure of the pocket 4 in a manner which will be readily noted. The frame aforesaid is designed to admit of a peculiar attachment of the elastic strip 5, the ends of said strip 5 being passed about the plates 8 and secured thereto. The strip 5 is thus prevented from wrinkling or pulling the side edges of the pocket by the provision of the frame, and the upper longitudinalv edge of the strip 5 is stitched to the upper portion of the pocket 4, preferably just beneath the upper stiifener member 7, as shown at 9. The lower portion of the strip 5 being open just above the mouth of the pocket is thereby adapted to form a Aclosure therefor, the outer side of the pocket 4 being provided with a tab oriiap 10, adapted to be disposed beneath the strip 5, so that said strip will be more effective as a closure for the pocket 4 than would other wise be the case. It is preferredl that the tab l0 be made of some stiff material; but it is contemplated in the breadth of the invention that said tab shall be integral with the outer side of the pocket. The lower transverse stiffener member 7 at the mouth of the pocket and at the inner side thereof is curved in its length as contradistinguished from the upper member, which is normally straight, so that said lower stilfener member 7 bulges outwardly from the pocket after a manner and normally bears against the under side of the tab 10 when said tab is beneath the strip 5, tending to force the tab outn wardly.

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In actual use, the pocket being closed, if it is desired to have access lthereto the wearer may readily insert the irst three fingers of his hand beneath the strip', and by pulling said strip upwardly and then pressing toward the body the tab 10 will be thrown out by the action of the lower stiifener member 7, permitting the hand to slide down into the pocket in a manner which will be evident. In closing the pocket one may conveniently insert .his index-finger beneath the elastic and with the other three lingers readily push the tab 10 therebeneath.

The pocket 4 will not interfere whatever with the pocket originally applied to the garment and in which it may be disposed for obvious reasons, and if the garment-pocket is not sufficiently deep the lower seam may be opened and the outer part of the garmentpocket stitched to the outer side of the safetypocket, still allowing each pocket to be used. The safety-pocket will be made in various widths in order to fit any pocket of any garment.

The formation of the tab 10 is such that the ends thereof are practically unconfined, so that when the strip 5 is raised the tab 10, which is overlapped thereby normally, can be readily thrown out and will permit of free access to the pocket in View of its movability.

The safety-pocket is very simple in its construction and very advantageous and will also prevent likelihood of articles dropping from the pocket after the same has been closed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is y 1. In combination, a garment, a safetypocket applied thereto and havinga tab on its free side at the mouth thereof, and an elastic strip at the mouth of the pocket overlapping the tab and normally exerting a positive pressure to confine the same against the inner wall of said pocket.

2. In combination, a garment, a safetypocket applied thereto and provided on its free side with a tab adjacent the mouth thereof, and an elastic strip stitched at its ends and at its upper longitudinal edge to the garment above the mouth of the pocket and arranged to overlap the tab and normally exert a positive pressure to confine the same against the inner wall of said pocket.

`same to the inner vwall of said pocket.

4. A safety-pocket provided with a tab at the open end thereof, a strip atthe mouth of the pocket beneath which the tab may be disposed, and means applied adjacent the mouth of the pocket and normally tending to throw the tab outwardly from the strip.

5. A safety-pocket provided with a tab at the open end thereof, a strip at the mouth of the pocket beneath which the tab may be disposed, and a flexible member applied adjacent the mouth of the pocket and normally tending to' throw the tab outwardly from the strip aforesaid. y

6. A safety-pocket provided with a tab at the open end thereof, a strip at the mouth of the pocket beneath which the tab may be disposed, and a iiexible stiffener member beneath the strip and normally tending to throw the tab outwardly therefrom.

7. Asafety-pocket having a transverse elastic strip at the mouth thereof, a stiifener-frame applied -to the pocket and connected with said elastic strip, and a tab applied to the pocket at the mouth thereof and adapted to be arranged beneath the elastic strip aforesaid, an element of the stiffener-frame aforesaid normally tending to force the tab outwardly from the elastic strip.

8. A safety-pockethaving a transverse strip at the mouth thereof adapted to form a closure therefor, a tab at the mouth of the pocket adapted to be inserted beneath the strip aforesaid, and a normally curved flexible stiifener member beneath the strip and tending to force the tab outwardly.

In testimony whereof we aiiix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT D. HAY. L. s] JOHN F. BIEBER. [L s] Witnesses:

CHRISTIAN G.'AURACHER, ACHARLES F. BAUERs. 

